William Karst

An early purchaser of land in Tobago, grantee of: Rockly Bay division (St Andrew parish) Lots nos. 19 & 20 (which became Sherwood Park) on 19/03/1767, which by 1773 were shown as 'Timans and late Davison'; and with Thomas Bird (q.v.) North East division Lot No. 13 (200 acres) on 19/04/1768, which by 1773 was in the hands of William Sloane (q.v). Nothing further has been traced of him, although in the 1820s the Slave Registers show there was a slave-owner in Grenada called Charles or Charles William Karst, presumably a son or grandson.

'Tables showing the Lots in each Parish, numbered as originally granted - the original Grantee - the name of the Lot, or lots, if one has been acquired, and the present Possessor where there is one' and 'A Table, showing the Estates in cultivation in 1832, and their Owners, in 1832, copied from the list appended to Byres' map of that date, with those in cultivation in 1862', Henry Iles Woodcock, A History of Tobago (Ayr: Smith and Grant, 1867; new impression London: Frank Cass and Company Limited, 1971); John Fowler, A summary account of the present flourishing state of the respectable colony of Tobago in the British West Indies illustrated with a map of the island and a plan of its settlement, agreeably to the sales by his Majesty’s Commissioners (London: A Grant, 1774) pp. 46-47, 56-57.